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The nc (or netcat) utility is used for just about anything under the
sun involving TCP, UDP, or UNIX-domain sockets.  It can open TCP
connections, send UDP packets, listen on arbitrary TCP and UDP ports,
do port scanning, and deal with both IPv4 and IPv6.